Distressed Loon Spirit churning wildly upon the ocean’s door Can’t find no when or why for Waves of life cuts… Read More
Poetry
Roger Paul
I am the… Nil yaq wocosen (I am the wind) pesni yali yai yut kcikuk (meandering through the woods) Nil… Read More
Mihku Paul
Her Medicine This body, I know better than a bird knows the tree called home, perched in the leafy dreams… Read More
Crystal Dawn Draffen
Full Blood Love i. The fire crackles, the ice cracks. Our half-truths step forward, As our history comes back. I… Read More
Victoria Akins
I am from… I am from Cape Cod ~ Otis Air Force Base and telephone lines I am from my… Read More
Alice Azure
Jingle Dress Song for My Grandmother in This Time of Global Pandemic For Petra Sofie Pedersen 1887 – 1937 A… Read More
Alice M. Azure
Relativity I sit at the southern position of a large circle, a council of grandmothers. They are chuckling at another… Read More
Mary Bassett
Ancestors My feet feel so cold so I keep wiggling my toes until the warmth returns. Bareheaded in the rain,… Read More
Rich Holschuh
T8ni Kizos Wazwasa – Winter Solstice Terraced lines shine silver,Layers upon the cross-hatched riverbanksThreads of smoke rise still and silent… Read More
Natalie Dana Lolar
In this time In this time of posted landWhere do we go…?How do we live…?No food gathered…No medicine picked…No game… Read More
Dawna Meader
Wocawson Cipenuk From the East she blows a gentle rainAnd washes away our worry and pain.Her breezes reach out and… Read More
Charlie True
Phillip at Wachusett The grating of the dried oaks of Wachusettleaf upon layered leafwould shatter the wind’s soft lilting whisperin… Read More
Carol Bachofner
Water is as essential to our collective lives as the blood pumping through our human hearts. You might correlate our… Read More
Alice M. Azure–Featured Writer
CAHOKIA COLLECTS and RESPONSES Ancients of Cahokia,I offer these prayersas a person busy with everydaywork—aware that you alsobusied yourselves aroundour… Read More
Sebrena Tomah
Believe Hold on, be strong Finding our strength in who we are Through our ancestor’s ways Will help us get… Read More
Charlie True
Per the request of the late Abenaki Elder Gali Sanchez, this poem was lovingly read at his ceremony, as his… Read More
William S. Yellow Robe, Jr.
All the Way to the Bone I wish, I pray, I prayed, I thought, I even sing, for all good… Read More
Joseph Bruchac–Featured Writer
Writer’s Statement You could say that my sons turned me into a children’s author at a time when my main… Read More
